Rates And Ranks

Question 1

How many seperate pay grades are there?

Answer 1

22

Question 2

How many enlisted paygrades

Answer 2

9, E1-E9

Question 3

How many CWO pay grades

Answer 3

3

Question 4

How many officer pay grades

Answer 4

10

Question 5

What does “E” Stand for?

Answer 5

Enlisted

Question 6

What does “W” stand for?

Answer 6

Warrant Officer

Question 7

WHat does “O” Stand for?

Answer 7

Commissioned Officers

Question 8

THe plain language name for enlisted people aka MKC, SK2,identify

Answer 8

Enlisted persons by Pay grade

Question 9

Storekeeper, Machinery Technician, Boatswain’s Mate, and Yeoman are examples of

Answer 9

Occupational Specialty

Question 10

What is insignia for a single, 2, or 3 white stripes?

Answer 10

E1-3… aka SEAMAN or SA, (In bootcamp it is called Seaman Recruit)

If the E2-E3 has a red stripe then they would be called Fireman or FN

Note in the field it has been called SA or FA(seaman apprentice or fireman apprentice)for E2s but that is NOT what the book says

Question 11

When can enlisted people have a striker designator?

Answer 11

AFter they graduated A school or completed on the job training (striking is the general term used for getting PO Quals as a nonrate

Question 12

Describe the insignia for POs?

Answer 12

The collar devices- THey have a silver chevron and gold chevrons. In order to figure out what rank, think of it as the shield counts as 3 paygrades and then a chevron counts as 1 paygrade. Ie having a chevron and a shield is E4(3+1), having 3 chevrons and a shield is E6 (3+3).

Question 13

WHats an E4 called?

Answer 13

3rd class PO.

Question 14

What are the PO LEFT sleeve insignia components and how do we tell their ranks

Answer 14

There is a white crow and then chevrons underneath it. To calculate the rank then have the CROW represent 3 paygrades (just like the shield on the collar device) and each chevron represents 1 pay grade. So a crow with 3 chevrons would be an E6 (PO First class)

Question 15

What is a combo cover?

Answer 15

Its the white hat, for Junior Enlisted (E1-E6) it has a CG Emblem with crisscrossed anchors. For E7-E9 it is replaced with an anchor. For Junior Officers O1-O4 it will have an Eagle. For Senior Officers they will have “Oak Leaves” on the brim of their Combo Cover. Once you make flag officer (O7-O10) you get 2 rows of Oak Leaves

Question 16

Garrison Covers? What are they and what do you put on them?

Answer 16

Is the thin blue cloth cap. If you are E1-E3 rank you just wear a CG Emblem. Once you make E4-E6, you wear a shield with Garrison.

Question 17

What are the Senior Petty Officer sleeve and collar devices.

Answer 17

For the left sleeve insignia it would have a white crow, with either one (E8) or 2 (E9) stars on top of the crow. THere is also a gold ‘rocker” which is the curved gold line attached to the top chevron, and there will be three gold chevrons underneath.

For collar devices for senior Petty Officer there is a silver shield with gold anchor and with 1 (E8) or 2 (E9). E7 through E9 and the MCPOCG wear a cover device that matches their collar device on both the combo and garrison cover.

Question 18

MCPOCG

Answer 18

THere is only one MCPOCG. THeir job is to present enlisted concerns to the CMDT. They are an E9 but THEY HAVE 3 STARS INSTEAD OF NORMAL MASTER CHIEF WHICH HAS 2 STARS.

Question 19

Service Stripes, whats the deal

Answer 19

They represent 4 years of service, they are only worn by enlisted members. They are RED for E6 and below, they are GOLD for E7 and above. They are located on the left sleeve of the BRAVO JACKET.

Question 20

CWO ranks and information

Answer 20

Chief Warrant Officers are rated as officers above the senior-most enlisted rank. Warrant officers are highly skilled, single-track specialty officers appointed from enlisted status. They start at CWO2 and move up to CWO4.

Question 21

What does the CWO devices look like?

Answer 21

Gold collar device = CWO2, The CWO2 shoulder board has 3 blue stripes.

Two blue sections with a “platinum middle” is the collar device for CWO3. Their shoulder board has 2 blue stripes.

If there is three blue sections and 2 “platinum” sections that is the collar device for CWO4, their shoulder boards have only 1 blue stripe in the middle of the gold.

Question 22

What are CWO specialty insignia?

Answer 22

If it has 2 anchors w/o shield then its a BOSN. If it has the Caduseus (snake wrapped around a stick) then its a MEDICAL CWO. If it has a Propeller then its a NAVAL Engineer.

Question 23

Junior Officer collar devices

Answer 23

Gold Bar is for an Ensign O1
Silver (Platinum) is for Lieutenant Junior Grade O2
2 Silver bars (Platinum) is the Lieutenant O3
The gold oak leaf is Lieutenant Commander O4

The Senior Officers***
The Silver Oak leaf is for Commander O5
The Silver Eagle is for Captain O6

Question 24

Shoulder boards for Officers

Answer 24

One gold bar is an ensign 1/2 inch
LTJG= 1/2 inch gold band and a 1/4 inch gold band
LT= 2 1/2 inch gold bands
LCDR= 2 1/2 inch gold bands with a 1/4 inch gold band inbetween
CDR= 3 1/2 inch gold bands
CPT= 4 1/2 inch gold bands

Question 25

How does an officer wear a garrison cover?

Answer 25

They wear the Rank insignia on the RIGHT, and the miniature office gold eagle on LEFT.

Question 26

Flag officers info

Answer 26

O7-1 star on a gold background for shoulder board.

• 1 silver star is the collar devices
• Dress Jacket has 2-inch goldband
• O7, REAR ADMIRAL LOWER HALF RDML

O8, REAR Admiral upper half RADM

• Shoulder board is gold with 2 stars.
• Collar devices are 2 silver stars
• Dress Jacket has 2-inch gold band w/ 1 1/2 inch gold bands

O9, VICE ADMIRAL VADM

• Shoulder board is gold with 3 stars.
• Collar devices are 3 silver stars
• Dress jacket has 2 inch gold band w/ 2 1/2 inch gold bands

O10, ADMIRAL, ADM

• Shoulder board is gold with 4 stars.
• Collar devices are 4 silver stars.
• Dress Jacket has 2 inch gold band w/ 3 1/2 inch gold bands